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It then leverages Izzets dragons, tempo, and control to manipulate the game and pull out a win through combat damage

It lets you rummagediscard and drawand deals damage to a creature or planeswalker equal to the mana value of the discarded card, as long as its not a land

"ith the advent of play boosters, is the rule of approximately 6 months later still the case?"

Thing is, planeswalkers get their loyalty counters when they enter the battlefield as a replacement effect, but transforming does not count as entering the battlefield (that's why Sorin's regular transformation tells you to exile it, and then return it transformed)